The suspected Florida mail bomber is a lost and “sick individual’ who estranged himself from his family but eventually “found a father” in President Trump, his family’s lawyer said.
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Sayoc was charged last October for the string of package bombs that were mailed to prominent Democratic politicians and media figures, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and current presidential candidates Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
New details on Cesar Sayoc, who allegedly mailed pipe bombs to media outlets and top Dems. Defense filings reveal Cesar Sayoc was obsessed with President Trump and Fox News. New defense filings in the case of admitted serial bomber Cesar Sayoc paint a grim picture of a man who "lost everything in the Great Recession," had "cognitive limitations ...
Defense filings in the case of Cesar Sayoc, who pleaded guilty to mailing pipe bombs to several Democrats, included photos of his van filled with Trump memorabilia. Prosecutors called Soyoc’s claim that his devices were hoaxes a "desperate effort to avoid accountability" and "simply false.".
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said he will be looking for information on "some type of setup" on three subjects in special counsel Robert Mueller's final report.
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Kaczynski's first mail bomb was directed at Buckley Crist, a professor of materials engineering at Northwestern University. On May 25, 1978, a package bearing Crist's return address was found in a parking lot at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The package was "returned" to Crist, who was suspicious because he had not sent it, so he contacted campus police. Officer Terry Marker opened the package, which exploded and caused minor injuries. Kaczynski had returned to Chicago for the May 1978 bombing and stayed there for a time to work with his father and brother at a foam rubber factory. In August 1978, his brother fired him for writing insulting limericks about a female supervisor Ted had courted briefly. The supervisor later recalled Kaczynski as intelligent and quiet, but remembered little of their acquaintanceship and firmly denied they had had any romantic relationship. Kaczynski's second bomb was sent nearly one year after the first one, again to Northwestern University. The bomb, concealed inside a cigar box and left on a table, caused minor injuries to graduate student John Harris when he opened it.
Theodore John Kaczynski ( / kəˈzɪnski / kə-ZIN-skee; born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber ( / ˈjuːnəbɒmər / ), is an American domestic terrorist and former mathematics professor. He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive life.
In late 1967, the 25-year-old Kaczynski became an acting assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught mathematics. By September 1968, Kaczynski was appointed assistant professor, a sign that he was on track for tenure.
In 1994, Burson-Marsteller executive Thomas Mosser was killed after opening a mail bomb sent to his home in New Jersey. In a letter to The New York Times, Kaczynski wrote he had sent the bomb because of Mosser's work repairing the public image of Exxon after the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
At Michigan, Kaczynski specialized in complex analysis, specifically geometric function theory. Professor Peter Duren said of Kaczynski, "He was an unusual person. He was not like the other graduate students.
He became associated with a group of like-minded boys interested in science and mathematics, known as the "briefcase boys" for their penchant for carrying briefcases. Throughout high school, Kaczynski was ahead of his classmates academically. Placed in a more advanced mathematics class, he soon mastered the material.
The FBI theorized that Kaczynski's crimes involved a theme of nature, trees and wood. He often included bits of a tree branch and bark in his bombs. His selected targets included Percy Wood and Professor Leroy Wood. Crime writer Robert Graysmith noted his "obsession with wood" was "a large factor" in the bombings.
Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that." Zucker later stated that all mail sent to any CNN building will now be screened offsite. CNN also reported that the bombings were one of three hate-motivated incidents that took place in the United States the same week, along with shootings in a synagogue in Pittsburgh and a Kroger grocery store in Jeffersontown, Kentucky.
2018 Tallahassee shooting. Christopher Paul Hasson, a United States Coast Guard Lieutenant white nationalist and neo-Nazi skinhead found to have plotted mass terrorist attacks against Democrats. List of terrorist incidents in October 2018. List of United States Congress members killed or wounded in office.
None of the devices exploded outside a controlled setting. A suspect, Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr., was arrested in Florida on October 26, held without bail, and charged with five federal crimes the following week. The FBI investigated the case as domestic terrorism.
Reports of previous threats. Ilya Somin , a libertarian-leaning law professor at George Mason University and a scholar at the Cato Institute, reported that he was the subject of death threats from Sayoc made on Facebook in April 2018.
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